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Drawing on recent trends in both Atlantic and center-periphery literature, this book examines the relationship between the English crown - monarch, privy council, and ancillary bodies - and its Atlantic colonies under the early Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, circa 1603-1642.

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The Crown and the Atlantic Charters Foreign Affairs: The Example of Spain Emigration and the Shaping of the English Atlantic World Tobacco and the Economy of Empire Petitions and Executive Authority Commissions and Committees for Foreign Plantations

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KEN MACMILLAN Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is also the author of Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World (2006).

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